...formerly ISIS...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
five years ago, said she "regrets every single thing" and has fought to return home despite the loss of her citizenship.
Hoda Muthana, 25, left her family home in Alabama in 2014 after making contact with ISIS fighters through social media. Muthana had gained a large following on Twitter and expressed anti-Western ideology consistent with that of ISIS, or ISIS, including encouraging jihadis to "go on drivebys, and spill all of their blood."
Muthana was born to a Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i diplomat
| ...that’s proud dad Ahmed Ali Muthana, who in February sued the U.S. government to make them bring his little girl home. He is represented by the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America (CLCMA), funded by the Muslim Legal Fund of America... |
| This was one of the bright ideas of President Obama’s clever boys and girls back at the beginning of 2016. They even sent her parents a letter informing them that their daughter had never been a citizen. President Trump is just executing his predecessor’s decision. |
Upon arriving in Syria to join ISIS in 2014, Muthana burned her U.S. passport and declared herself a part of the caliphate. She married an Australian-born ISIS fighter who was killed in 2015 and subsequently married a Tunisian fighter who was also killed, but with whom she had a son. Muthana married one more fighter, whom she divorced.
As the ISIS enclave in Syria collapsed, Muthana surrendered to coalition forces in January 2019 and asked to come back to the U.S. in February. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, through the instruction of President Trump, publicly denied reentry to Muthana and her two-year-old son. "Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States," Pompeo said. "She’s a terrorist."
Muthana claimed she no longer espoused the views and values she readily shared when she fled the U.S. for Syria in 2014. Having said she "regrets every single thing," Muthana said to NBC News that the refugee camps she was forced to live in after her surrender felt increasingly unsafe for her and her young child. She also claimed it was "hard to get up in the morning."
Muthana said that, if allowed to return to the U.S., she would be open to facing justice for her actions. "They can watch over me 24/7, I’d be OK with that," she said. "I want my son to be around my family, I want to go to school, I want to have a job and I want to have my own car."